Tampa Bay Frogman Swim

Swim the Costa Brava

Eco Sea Swim

One of the World'sMost Gorgeous Swims

SWIMBARBADOSVACATIONS.COM

The Pyramid of Open Water Success

Open Water Swimming Safety

Conference Videos“Fantastic seminar. Shelley was terrific. Great choice for the opening speaker. I enjoyed Chris Brewster & Ralph’s input in the first session. Great stuff. It was interesting to listen to the thoughts of the panel in session #2. In the afternoon I went to Safety in Ocean Water Swims, Cold Water & Marathon Swims. Dr Miller provided very valuable information in an accessible way. The panel for Marathon Swims was unbelievable. It speaks volumes that you could pull all of those people together in one place. I could have listened to that panel exchange information for hours.”

1Vigor.com – Trent Grimsey

Open Water Swimming Ambassadors

Jorge Delgado, Olympic Swimming Legend of Ecuador, explains why the 10 Kilometer distance was chosen for the Olympic marathon swimming events. Mr. Delgado was one of the featured speakers at the 2011 Global Open Water Swimming Conference.

HOT TRENDS IN THE OPEN WATER

Openwaterpedia is an online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Arabic and Japanese.

Beat the Boredom… Swim with Music

The Man Who Swam the Amazon

Strel Swimming Adventures

Lake Powell´s geological formations in the southwestern region of the United States are about as magnificent as anyone can imagine. This second largest man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona is surrounded by the beautiful red rocks, sandy beaches and clear blue water.
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Open Water Swimming Book

Open Water Swimming is an essential guide to maneuvering the open-water environment and describes how to prepare logistically, physically, and mentally for open-water swims. The book includes stroke techniques, racing tactics, and training plans for triathlon, middle-distance, and marathon-distance swims.

Satellites, Speed And Swimming

NASA satellite operators, professional race car drivers and open water swimmers have one common thread tying them together. They all face optimal control issues.

That is, satellite engineers, race car drivers and swimmers all want to identify and follow the optimal course they can take to travel in the least amount of time or by using the least amount of energy (fuel). Whether they are traveling through space, on a road or in the water, the three different groups have all determined that the fastest or most energy-efficient course is not always the shortest path.

While a satellite takes into account gravity and altitude to determine the best route, a race car driver takes into account the banks of a course, corners and traction of the road while swimmers calculates currents, tides, waves and the effects of drafting. Many times, the problems and the optimal solutions can be extraordinarily complex.

For example, does a swimmer continue to draft off another swimmer who may going slightly off-course? Does the swimmer slow up to catch a wave into the finish? Does the swimmer stop for hydration or bypass the feeding station? There are other related issues: if a swimmer is late to practice, does he continue driving on the crowded highway or do they take side streets? Does he wear a Speedo Fastskin or a TYR Tracer Light? A 2 beat kick or 4 beat? Slower or faster arm tempo? If only the swimmer had an onboard (mental) mathematical algorithm and computing power like satellite…

An Inspirational Cause… A Successful Event

SWIM ACROSS AMERICA, LONG BEACH
With the powerful cause of making waves to fight cancer, the inaugural Swim Across America Long Beach event was both inspirational and successful.

THE DRAMA OF THE SPORT
Before he came out of the water, Craig knew that a certain question had to be answered. It wasn’t a question about his middle name or anything like that. It was much more profound. It was a question posed by himself, a question that only he could answer for himself. When Craig was able to answer that question, Hank embraced him and congratulated him on finishing the 5K with dignity.

An Almanacfor Open Water Swimming
An almanac is essentially a body of knowledge which is so complete that it enables people in different fields to make predictions about the future of their respective industries.